Re: st: getting the range of labels on a graph

[Antoine Terracol <Antoine.Terracol@univ-paris1.fr>]

Answering my own question, for anyone interested:

Instead of combining all my subgraphs in one step, I combined them in 
two steps, using -ycommon- and/or -xcommon- when suitable.

Antoine


On 07/06/11 10:05, Antoine Terracol wrote:
> Hello _all,
>
> would anyone know of a way to automatically get the range of the x- and
> y-axis used by Stata in a -twoway- graph?
>
> I need to write a small command to automate the production of a specific
> graphic involving -graph combine-, and for the result to look nice, I
> need to make some axis coincide, which in turns require that I set the
> -xlabel- and -ylabel- of subgraphics to match those of the main -twoway-
> graph (xhich itself is a superposition of a scatterplot and of a
> nonparametric regression with confidence intervals).
>
> The program would implement the following steps:
>
> 1. get the name of two variables from the syntax
> 2. draw the main -twoway- graph
> 3. somehow get the labels range of that graph
> 4. use the ranges to tweak the secondary graphs so that everything looks
> nice
>
> And I'm stuck at step 3...
>
> Antoine


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